 translated by His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This is the world's best-selling edition of the Gita. It is alive with knowledge and devotion; thus it has the power to change your life for the better. The Gita is a conversation between the Supreme Lord Krishna and His dear friend and devotee Arjuna. At the last moment before entering a crucial battle, the great warrior Arjuna begins to wonder: Why should he fight? What is the meaning of life? Where is he going after death?
In response, Lord Krishna brings His friend from perplexity to spiritual enlightenment, and each one of us is invited to walk the same path. Bhagavad-gita is knowledge of five basic truths and the relationship of each truth to the other: these five truths are Krishna or God, the individual soul, the material world, action in this world, and the time factor. The Gita lucidly explains the nature of consciousness, the self, and the universe. It is the essence of India's spiritual wisdom, the answers to questions posed by philosophers throughout the ages.
In translating, Srila Prabhupada has remained loyal to the spirit and purport of Lord Krishna's words, and thus he has unlocked the secrets of the ancient message of the Gita and placed them before us as an exciting opportunity for self-improvement and spiritual fulfillment.
- Hard cover, 908 pages, 5.5" x 8.25"
- 16 color plates
- Original Devanagari Sanskrit text of each verse
- Romanised Sanskrit text of each verse
- English word-for-word transliteration of each verse
- English rendering of each verse
- Elaborate commentary for many verses
- General index
- Verse index
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-gita. It was the first of books. It was as if an empire spoke to us; nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent; the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered upon and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.”
Henry David Thoreau: "In the morning, I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."
Dr Samuel D Atkins (professor of Sanskrit, Princeton University): "I am most impressed with A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's scholarly and authoritative edition of Bhagavad Gita. It is a most valuable work for the scholar as well as the layman and is of great utility as a reference book as well as a textbook. I promptly recommend this edition to my students. It is a beautifully done book."
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